The Earth Wants Us Dead

Dave Aftandilian
It begins slowly, quietly—the earth is nothing if not patient. Unseen pulses of gathering anger propagate drop by drop, root tip to root tip. Squirrels gather in the treetops, chittering. Moss-mounds shamble, tendrils waving. Black clouds rumble; lightning flashes. Suddenly the skies open, the oceans deluge the coasts, the earth shudders and cracks—and all the works of Man disappear as if we had never been. And then all is quiet again, and the stars creep forth, twinkling....
Favorite track: The Earth Wants Us Dead.

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released October 31, 2013

Recorded and Engineered at Mammoth Studios by Thomas Mucherino and David Lutz, mixed by Sea of Bones, mastered by Mell Dettmer. The track “The Earth Wants Us Dead” was engineered by Scott Amore at InnerSpaceSoundLabs and was mixed and mastered by Thomas Mucherino.

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